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Narrator:
An ancient hammer
of an incredible age.
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Jeff williams:
The hammer was found
in sandstone.
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It takes about 140 million years
to form.
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Who was here
140 million years ago?
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Narrator:
Strange figures
of unknown origin.
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Dominic steavu:
The sanxingdui humanoid statues
have really striking features
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that are unlike anything
that has ever been excavated.
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Narrator:
A sophisticated computing device
recovered from
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a 2,000-year-old shipwreck.
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David childress:
They actually said it was like
finding a jet plane
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in the tomb of king tut.
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Narrator:
Throughout the world,
artifacts have been found
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that defy explanation.
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Is it possible that they were
purposely left behind
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by alien visitors?
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Giorgio a. Tsoukalos:
All these so-called
impossible artifacts
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that have been found worldwide
all of a sudden become
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very possible if you
take into consideration
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the extraterrestrial question.
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Narrator:
There is a doorway
in the universe...
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Beyond it is the promise
of truth.
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It demands we question
everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is right
before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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Cape canaveral, florida,
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February 21, 2019.
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Spacex, a private
aerospace company,
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launches a falcon 9 rocket
carrying an israeli spacecraft
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called the beresheet lander,
destined for the moon.
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Within the lander is
a digital time capsule
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called the arch lunar library,
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containing over 30 million pages
of data,
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including a full copy of
the english-language wikipedia.
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The lunar library is a
multi-billion-year artifact
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that we designed to
send a message
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of our civilization's history
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to whoever inhabits
our solar system
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in the deep future.
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The lunar library contains
30 million pages
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of human history, culture,
knowledge, art, science.
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Narrator:
On April 11th, seven weeks
after the launch,
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the lander reaches
its destination.
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But as it descends
towards the lunar surface,
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beresheet's gyroscope fails,
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and the main engine shuts off,
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causing the lander
to crash on the moon.
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While the lander is
likely destroyed,
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its cargo, the lunar library,
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was built to be
nearly indestructible,
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and is thought to have survived.
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Spivack:
We used quartz crystal.
That is incredibly durable.
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It can last 14 billion years.
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There are 25 different layers.
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The top four layers consist of
60,000 analog images
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of pages of text, photos.
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Below that are 21 layers
of digital information.
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The analog layers teach
important information
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to get the digital information
off the deeper layers.
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Storing this record
of human history on the moon
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means that once-- if and when
our planet is destroyed,
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something happens and all of our
records are wiped out,
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there is something in a place
that has stood the test of time
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for four billion years.
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Narrator:
In addition to providing
a record of humanity
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that will survive for
potentially billions of years,
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the project has another
less conventional motivation.
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Spivack:
We were interested in
retracing the steps
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of potential ancient aliens.
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If there were ancient aliens,
and they were preserving
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a message for us to find,
what would they have done?
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Narrator:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
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the mission is
a milestone event,
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and one that is long overdue.
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As far as they are concerned,
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what humans have now undertaken
with the lunar library
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is exactly what
extraterrestrials did on earth
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thousands of years ago.
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The question is always,
well, where is the evidence?
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Where is the evidence?
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Well, all you have to do
is open your eyes.
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It's everywhere!
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Narrator: Throughout the world,
countless mysterious artifacts
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have been discovered that defy
any conventional explanation.
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And while skeptics may insist
that proof of alien visitation
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could only come in the form
of some highly advanced
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technology, ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
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even the most mundane items
can serve as evidence.
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In fact, in 1936,
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a local couple in london, texas
were walking along a creek
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when they came upon one of the
most puzzling ancient artifacts
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ever found... A hammer.
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Williams:
It was a prehistoric hammer,
if you will,
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with part of the handle
still in place
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inside some very old rock.
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And part of the handle
actually is starting
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to go through a process
called "coalification."
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it's where you have
inorganic material
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and organic material
changing into coal.
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Now, how old is this hammer?
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The hammer itself was found
in the travis formation.
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It's a concretion of sandstone.
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And it usually takes about
140 million years
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for this to form.
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Who was here
140 million years ago?
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Tsoukalos:
Modern-day archaeology suggests
that we've only been around
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for about 10,000 years,
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so this falls into
the category of
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out-of-place artifacts.
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Around the world,
there are so-called
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out-of-place artifacts
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commonly referred to
as "ooparts."
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and those ooparts
are challenging
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mainstream archaeology because
they do not fit into
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the accepted chronology of
what mainstream science says.
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Narrator:
Could a 140-million-year-old
hammer
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really have been discovered
in texas?
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Skeptics argue that the couple
who came upon this hammer
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must have been mistaken
about where they found it.
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But could there be so-called
impossible artifacts
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whose authenticity is
beyond question?
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Egypt, valley of the kings.
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November, 1922.
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British archaeologists
howard carter and lord carnarvon
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discover what will prove to be
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one of the most important finds
in the history of egyptology:
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The tomb of king tutankhamun.
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To this day, it is considered
the best preserved
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and most intact tomb
ever discovered
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in the valley of the kings.
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And within it, a very puzzling
artifact was found.
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William henry:
While they're unpacking
tut's mummy,
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they discover these
incredible daggers.
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One of them had an iron blade
with a gold handle
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and a crystal knob on it.
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This is two centuries
before egypt
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is supposed to have had
the ability
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to manipulate iron in this way.
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In 2016, new tests were done
on this dagger,
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and it was confirmed that
this is not just iron,
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this is meteoric iron.
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This iron came from the stars.
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Anybody who has ever worked
with meteorites, even today,
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will tell you it's
very difficult to do this
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because of the
high nickel content.
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It makes the metal very brittle.
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And a technique known as
folding, or stacking,
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has to be done
in order to strengthen it,
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or else it'll crack
and fracture.
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So the metal has to be heated up
to about 2,000 degrees,
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and then folded and hammered,
folded and hammered.
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But the dagger doesn't display
the telltale signs of folding,
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which is usually the striations
that run through the metal.
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So how was this blade made?
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Narrator:
According to their texts,
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the knowledge of how
to work with metal
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was given to the egyptians
by the god ptah.
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Henry:
Ptah was the egyptian god
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of smithcraft and alchemy.
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He came from the star sirius.
He had green skin.
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Is it possible that
this incredible dagger
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has some sort of an
extraterrestrial connection?
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Narrator:
Could it be that seemingly
commonplace objects,
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like an ancient dagger
and a hammerhead,
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are extraterrestrial artifacts?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest that
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hidden away
in a museum storage room
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is an even more compelling
out-of-place artifact
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that is being purposely kept
out of public view.
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Transylvania, romania, 1974.
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Workers digging a trench along
the bank of the mures river
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make an unexpected find
35 feet underground:
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Two massive bones belonging
to a woolly mammoth,
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an animal that went extinct
40,000 years ago.
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But even more surprising is that
embedded in the hardened sand
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encasing the bones
is a mysterious metal object.
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One that would have to be
at least as old
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as the bones themselves.
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When the metal is examined,
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it is found to be
an aluminum alloy.
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Except it can't be, because
humans did not learn to smelt
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or fabricate aluminum until
the middle of the 19th century.
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The wedge of aiud,
as it would become known,
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is sent to the national museum
of transylvanian history.
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And because it cannot
be explained,
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it is quickly removed
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Ana gruia: The wedge of aiud
was not really on display
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for a long time because
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it's a puzzling artifact for us,
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and that's why we don't really
know how to interpret it.
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In my view, this object could
have just two solutions so far.
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One, that it is
really not so old,
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and it's a new object
strangely preserved, let's say.
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And the second option is,
of course,
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that it's not
of terrestrial origin.
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Tsoukalos:
How do you explain this?
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It doesn't deserve to be
in an unmarked box.
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Just because we don't know
how to explain something away
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doesn't necessarily mean
we have to look the other way.
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What is it?
Let's go figure it out.
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Narrator:
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
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there is one theory
regarding the wedge of aiud
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that provides an intriguing
parallel to the lunar library
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that crash-landed
on the moon in 2019.
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Henry:
An aeronautical engineer
who saw the aiud wedge
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looked at it and said, "that's
a piece of a landing gear
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for a vertical
take-off and landing aircraft."
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and this is very interesting
in light of what we know about
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the lunar library project,
which ultimately crashed
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into the moon.
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Narrator:
Is it possible
that the wedge of aiud
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is part of a spacecraft
that crashed on earth
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just like the beresheet lander
that crashed on the moon?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the question is no longer
"do alien artifacts exist?"
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but "what do they tell us?"
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could there be artifacts
that were purposely left
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for someone to find,
much like our own lunar library?
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Narrator:
Mysuru, karnataka, india.
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At the center of this sprawling
modern metropolis
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is the mysore oriental
research institute,
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home to some of the world's
most important ancient writings.
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Here, scholars continue to study
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the earliest known manuscripts
of the ramayana,
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the mahabharata
and other sanskrit texts
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that date back
at least 4,000 years
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and form the basis of hinduism.
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Roughly one billion people
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still subscribe to the world's
oldest surviving religion,
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which features a pantheon
of 333 million gods.
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These otherworldly beings
are often depicted
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wielding weapons
and traveling in flying craft.
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Childress:
Hindu mythology really reads
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like the wildest science fiction
of today.
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It is filled with all kinds
of magic stones,
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flying spaceships.
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In traditional
ancient astronaut theory,
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we're looking at mythology
and legends
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of these gods coming down,
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and reinterpreting
these legends and myths
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as possible extraterrestrials
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who are, in reality,
these gods of ancient times.
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Tsoukalous:
In fact, ancient india,
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their entire pantheon
of gods is based
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exclusively on a cosmic origin
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that they arrived
from deep space.
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Narrator:
Is it possible that the
foundational texts of hinduism
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provide a record of
extraterrestrial intervention
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on earth thousands of years ago?
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For the hindu faithful,
these stories are not mythology,
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but history, and ancient
astronaut theorists suggest
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incredible artifacts exist
to support this notion.
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In the mahabharata,
it is described
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that the god krishna rules
over a kingdom called dwarka
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that sank into the ocean
after being attacked
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by a flying machine
with incredible weapons.
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In 1983, 4,000 years
after the text was written,
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incredible artifacts
of an ancient city
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were found beneath the ocean,
in the exact location
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that dwarka was supposed
to have existed.
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Childress:
Indian archeologists,
for years, thought
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it was just a mythical city,
until they started finding
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these underwater ruins
off of gujarat,
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and realized that they were
the ruins of dwarka.
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Narrator:
Another ancient sanskrit story
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tells that a great deluge
was sent by the god indra
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to destroy what was described
as the seven pagodas
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of mahabalipuram
along india's southeast coast.
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Today, only one ancient pagoda
stands in mahabalipuram,
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and just as in the case
of dwarka,
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most scholars dismissed
the story as myth.
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17th-century dutch traders
recorded this legend.
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And modern archaeologists,
modern scientists,
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have generally dismissed it.
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Narrator:
But then, on December 26, 2004,
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a massive tsunami caused water
levels to temporarily drop,
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exposing a number
of mysterious-looking formations
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along the shoreline.
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Upon closer inspection,
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they were found to be
man-made structures,
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and quite possibly the ruins
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of the lost pagodas
of mahabalipuram.
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Schoch:
It ties in with
the legends and myths
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of these ancient temples
having been inundated
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by the ocean, that's number one.
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And number two,
we now have evidence
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that there's more
than one temple.
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We don't have all six yet,
but I suspect
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that the legends may be correct,
and there really are
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six more temples
out there to be found.
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Narrator:
Could the discovery of these
artifacts provide evidence
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that the sanskrit texts
really are historical accounts?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest that the most
astounding evidence of all
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corroborates a prominent
story of the ramayana,
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an epic poem about the god rama
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and the courtship
of his wife sita.
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According to the text,
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sita was kidnapped
and taken to an island
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off the southern tip of india,
known today as sri lanka.
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Rama raised an army
to rescue her,
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but had to overcome
a major obstacle.
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To get to his wife,
rama and his army
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must cross 30 miles
of open ocean.
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Deepak shimkhada:
Lanka was an island, and there
was no way to get there.
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There were no boats, there were
no ships to go there.
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And the challenge is,
how do you build a bridge,
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you know, so long?
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Narrator:
According to the ramayana,
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magical construction techniques
were used
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to build a bridge to lanka.
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Childress:
Some of the interesting details
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of the building
of rama's bridge is that
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they were writing rama's name
on these stones,
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and that would magically
levitate the stones.
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And some of these were
very big stones, too.
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Narrator:
As with many of the ancient
sanskrit stories,
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it reads like science fiction.
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But incredibly, modern
satellite imagery has revealed
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a 30-mile-long barrier of rocks
and sand that, in fact,
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connects the southern tip
of india to sri lanka.
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Childress:
For thousands of years,
people just thought,
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"okay, this is just a story,"
but with satellite photos,
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we can see this bridge.
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Rama's bridge to sri lanka
is real.
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And you have to ask yourself,
was it built artificially,
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uh, by levitating stones
and putting them there?
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That's what the ramayana
tells us.
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Shimkhada:
According to the mythology,
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you know, rama lived
around 6,000 years ago.
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And the interesting fact
that, uh, some geologists
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carbon-date the rocks
on the bottom
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approximately dating
around the same time.
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So that kind of corroborates
whether or not this story
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is connected to the mythology,
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because the age of rama
is around that period.
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Narrator:
While skeptics suggest
that rama's bridge
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is simply a natural formation,
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in 2018, the indian government
voted to protect it
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by canceling plans
to cut a shipping lane
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through the middle
of the structure.
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Shimkhada:
In order to get
to sri lanka today,
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ships have to go around,
could not be, you know,
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maneuvered through
the rocky area,
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so they wanted to cut down
the hours it takes.
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It would cut down the fuel,
it will be extremely economical.
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But officials
from the indian government
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and religious groups
believe this is something,
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you know, that was built
by god rama,
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that that should not
be destroyed,
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that should not be desecrated.
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Narrator:
Do the incredible stories
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of the ramayana
support the notion
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that rama's bridge
is an alien artifact?
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But if artifacts
like the london hammer,
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king tut's dagger,
the wedge of aiud
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and rama's bridge
are of extraterrestrial origin,
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were they purposely left
for future generations of humans
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to discover?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest there
may be far more
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to these artifacts
than meets the eye.
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Narrator:
Sichuan, china, 1986.
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Archaeologists unearth relics
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of a mysterious civilization
that flourished 3,000 years ago
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in southern china.
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Until the surprise discovery,
this civilization
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was completely unknown
to archeologists.
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Dominic steavu:
Excavation of sanxingdui
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revealed a very rich
treasure trove
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of ritual objects at the site,
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and these were extremely,
uh, refined.
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And, especially for the time,
they revealed
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very advanced knowledge
of metalworking,
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and engineering as well.
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It was unlike anything that has
ever been unearthed in china.
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Narrator:
Based on radiocarbon-dating
of the artifacts,
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archaeologists say
they were created
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by a civilization that emerged
in china around 1700 bc.
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This mysterious culture
is believed to have been part
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of the ancient kingdom of shu
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and has been dubbed
the "sanxingdui."
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further excavation
of the site suggests
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the sanxingdui thrived
for six centuries
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before suddenly
and mysteriously disappearing.
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Julie lee:
One of the things I find
most interesting
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about the sanxingdui culture
is that no one wrote
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about the sanxingdui culture,
and the sanxingdui culture
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didn't leave
any writing about themselves
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for us to find out
more about them.
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So to me, that they were able
to slip under the radar
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for so long is one of the most
incredible stories
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about the sanxingdui culture.
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Narrator:
But buried among the marble
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and jade artifacts,
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researchers discovered
something strange:
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Hundreds of humanoid figurines
that have an unusual appearance.
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Steavu:
The sanxingdui humanoid statues
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have what seems to be
a mask on the face,
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and protruding eyes
or beams, almost,
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shooting out of the eyes.
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And as to what exactly
these protruding beams
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emerging from these goggle-like,
uh, masks represent
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or why these humanoid
figures would have
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such really striking features
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that are unlike anything
that has ever been excavated.
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Tsoukalos:
Chinese archeologists admit
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that whatever or whoever
is represented here,
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it's not the chinese people.
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Narrator:
Archeologists believe
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the masks depict a strange
figure named cancong,
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the founder of the shu kingdom.
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According to ancient
chinese chronicles,
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cancong had protruding eyes
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and ruled for more
than a thousand years.
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While scholars
consider cancong mythical,
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the striking appearance
of the masks
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caused the chinese government
to openly wonder
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if it had
an otherworldly inspiration.
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Tsoukalos:
On November 1, 2007,
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the official press agency
of china asked the question
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whether or not
what we're looking at here
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are ancestors
or in fact extraterrestrials.
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And my question is, "what if
what we have here is both?"
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I am of the opinion
that whatever or whoever
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is represented in
these sanxingdui statues
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is a representation
of the visitors.
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Narrator:
Curiously, the sanxingdui
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are just one of many
ancient cultures
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that created ceremonial masks
of strange,
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perhaps otherworldly beings.
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The aztecs of central america,
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the dogon of west africa,
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the asaro tribe
of papua new guinea,
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the native hawaiians,
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and the selk'nam
of the southernmost parts
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of south america all made masks
to honor the sky gods.
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Childress:
When we look at these masks,
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as well as the unusual masks
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from the sanxingdui culture
in china,
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we have to wonder,
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are we looking at the face
of an extraterrestrial?
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Narrator:
Could these artifacts
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be commemorating alien
visitation throughout the world?
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While mainstream scholars argue
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that they are simply
imaginative representations
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of fictional gods,
ancient astronaut theorists say
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other evidence exists to suggest
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that these were real beings
witnessed by our ancestors.
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What you can find
with many of these depictions
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of these ancient gods...
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...Is they're depicted
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inside flying animals
or flying machines.
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In guatemala,
we have a giant flying turtle,
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and you have the helmet,
which is the turtle's head.
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The entire body
is aerodynamically fashioned.
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And there's some
modern-day fighter pilot glasses
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or goggles.
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There are multiple statues
all throughout india
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that depict buddha,
sitting on top what looks
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like a flying lotus flower
with smoke and fire coming out.
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In present-day mexico,
in la venta,
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we have this plumed serpent,
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the snake that appears
to be floating in the sky,
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and it has a helmet
for a person as a head,
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and then down below,
you actually see a person
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sitting inside this weird snake,
this flying snake.
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The sarcophagus lid that we can
find in palenque, mexico
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has a carving that looks
as if pakal is seated
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in some sort of
a rocket vehicle.
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That right there
is the smoking gun.
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Narrator:
Ancient carvings that resemble
flying machines,
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and strange masks depicting
otherworldly beings
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found all across the globe.
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Do these artifacts provide
a physical record
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of extraterrestrial visitation?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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these artifacts have deeper
secrets still to reveal.
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And an important clue
as to what really happened
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here on earth
in the distant past
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can be found by examining one
of the most mysterious objects
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ever discovered,
the antikythera device.
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Narrator:
The aegean sea, April 1900.
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Off the coast of the small
greek island of antikythera,
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00:27:49,126 --> 00:27:52,044
sponge divers discover
an ancient shipwreck
488
00:27:52,129 --> 00:27:55,381
150 feet beneath the surface.
489
00:27:55,466 --> 00:27:59,218
Over the next two years,
dozens of artifacts
490
00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:02,471
are recovered from the wreckage,
including the remains
491
00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:05,391
of a coral-encrusted
wooden and bronze box
492
00:28:05,476 --> 00:28:07,685
that looks like a clock.
493
00:28:09,271 --> 00:28:12,856
Archeologists date it
to the second century bc,
494
00:28:12,942 --> 00:28:15,317
but are unable
to determine what it is
495
00:28:15,403 --> 00:28:18,195
or what purpose it served.
496
00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:21,407
Ric rader:
So when the shipwreck
is first discovered,
497
00:28:21,492 --> 00:28:24,576
nobody made much of this device.
498
00:28:24,662 --> 00:28:27,663
The ship had been full of much
more interesting material
499
00:28:27,748 --> 00:28:29,915
that was mined out first.
500
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,334
It didn't exert much fascination
until people
501
00:28:32,420 --> 00:28:33,877
started looking
a lot more closely.
502
00:28:35,005 --> 00:28:36,714
Narrator:
For almost 60 years,
503
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:38,549
the artifact sat in storage
504
00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:41,719
at the national museum
of archaeology in athens.
505
00:28:42,805 --> 00:28:44,596
But in 1951,
506
00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:47,725
physicist
derek john de solla price
507
00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:49,935
began a careful examination
of the box
508
00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:53,439
and found something astonishing.
509
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:55,607
It contains the workings
510
00:28:55,693 --> 00:28:59,236
of a highly sophisticated
mechanical device.
511
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:04,074
Radar:
The antikythera device
is what looks to be
512
00:29:04,118 --> 00:29:10,080
a complex machine of gears,
cranks and levers.
513
00:29:10,124 --> 00:29:11,415
That's the best way
to describe what it is.
514
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,751
If you were to look at it,
it looks like a box.
515
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,087
Wooden on the outside
with a crank.
516
00:29:17,173 --> 00:29:19,506
And what the crank
would've done is moved
517
00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:24,428
a series of levers and gears
around on the inside.
518
00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:30,267
What we can tell
from the inscriptions on it,
519
00:29:30,311 --> 00:29:34,646
and what we can tell from
the way the device works is that
520
00:29:34,732 --> 00:29:38,776
it was a very mathematically
sophisticated machine
521
00:29:38,819 --> 00:29:43,614
for showing, even predicting,
where the stars,
522
00:29:43,657 --> 00:29:46,158
the sun, the planets
and the moon
523
00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,453
were all going to be
on a particular date
524
00:29:49,538 --> 00:29:51,497
that you were looking for.
525
00:29:51,582 --> 00:29:54,333
Really, for several
thousand years ago,
526
00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:57,586
this is a remarkably
promethean invention
527
00:29:57,671 --> 00:30:02,090
to put together this machine
in order to give
528
00:30:02,176 --> 00:30:05,803
the user of the box, in a sense,
a vision of the future.
529
00:30:05,888 --> 00:30:07,971
It's absolutely astounding.
530
00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:09,598
And you could see
how this would be useful
531
00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:12,017
if you were making
a trip on a ship,
532
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:15,771
or if you were trying to plan
your agricultural output.
533
00:30:15,856 --> 00:30:18,524
Narrator:
It is also believed
534
00:30:18,609 --> 00:30:20,275
that the antikythera device
535
00:30:20,361 --> 00:30:23,028
may have had
an astrological purpose.
536
00:30:23,113 --> 00:30:24,905
Jason martell:
The antikythera mechanism
537
00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:28,158
was a numerological device
that would help them know
538
00:30:28,202 --> 00:30:31,078
their planet sign, what day
and month they were born on,
539
00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:33,622
and how this information applied
to their life.
540
00:30:35,292 --> 00:30:37,584
Numerological information
was passed down
541
00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:40,504
as sacred knowledge
from various cultures.
542
00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:43,590
To know when to make
certain decisions.
543
00:30:43,676 --> 00:30:46,885
Narrator:
To operate it, a user
would enter information
544
00:30:46,971 --> 00:30:49,972
into the mechanism using
the complex system of gears
545
00:30:50,057 --> 00:30:52,683
and levers,
and then turn the crank
546
00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:56,186
to determine specific
astronomical positions.
547
00:30:57,481 --> 00:31:01,984
In June 1959,
price published his findings
548
00:31:02,069 --> 00:31:04,862
in the journal
scientific american,
549
00:31:04,905 --> 00:31:07,322
and described
the antikythera mechanism
550
00:31:07,408 --> 00:31:09,783
as an "ancient greek computer."
551
00:31:09,869 --> 00:31:11,702
childress: He realized
that it was a sophisticated
552
00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:16,290
computer that could dial up
astronomical configurations.
553
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:19,376
And, at the time,
the american scientists
554
00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:22,880
were so shocked
at how advanced this device was.
555
00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:25,549
And they actually said
that discovering
556
00:31:25,634 --> 00:31:28,886
the antikythera device
was like finding a jet plane
557
00:31:28,971 --> 00:31:30,721
in the tomb of king tut.
558
00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:36,727
Narrator:
Could a 2,000-year-old machine
from ancient greece
559
00:31:36,812 --> 00:31:41,273
upend the accepted history
of modern astronomy?
560
00:31:41,358 --> 00:31:43,734
According to ancient astronaut
theorists,
561
00:31:43,819 --> 00:31:47,237
this seemingly impossible
artifact is yet
562
00:31:47,281 --> 00:31:50,741
another example
of extraterrestrial visitation.
563
00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:57,205
Clearly this thing existed
at a time when computers,
564
00:31:57,291 --> 00:31:59,958
as far as we know it,
didn't exist.
565
00:32:00,044 --> 00:32:04,963
Am I proposing that
that machine itself
566
00:32:05,049 --> 00:32:07,883
was created by
extraterrestrials?
567
00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:10,177
Absolutely not.
568
00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:15,057
However, the knowledge
with which this thing was built
569
00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:18,602
was given to the greeks by
570
00:32:18,646 --> 00:32:20,437
potential extraterrestrial
visitors.
571
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:25,317
Narrator:
If the antikythera device
was made based on knowledge
572
00:32:25,402 --> 00:32:27,945
gleaned from extraterrestrial
visitors,
573
00:32:28,030 --> 00:32:32,991
might there be more to it than
scientists have yet discovered?
574
00:32:33,077 --> 00:32:36,620
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe artifacts like this
575
00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:39,748
were intended to one day
be found,
576
00:32:39,792 --> 00:32:44,086
much like the lunar library
that humans left on the moon.
577
00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:48,799
And that recent technological
advancements will soon reveal
578
00:32:48,842 --> 00:32:51,927
that they have much more to
tell us than meets the eye.
579
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,813
Narrator:
Zurich, switzerland.
December, 2019.
580
00:33:02,856 --> 00:33:08,151
Scientists yaniv erlich
and robert grass announce
581
00:33:08,237 --> 00:33:10,737
an incredible technological
breakthrough.
582
00:33:10,823 --> 00:33:13,281
One that takes
the unassuming form
583
00:33:13,367 --> 00:33:16,076
of a small plastic bunny.
584
00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:20,539
This seemingly mundane object
hides an incredible secret.
585
00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:23,166
Just like a living creature,
586
00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:27,087
the bunny has its own dna.
587
00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:28,755
But how?
588
00:33:28,841 --> 00:33:33,427
By binding negatively charged
molecules of biological dna
589
00:33:33,512 --> 00:33:37,014
with positively charged
particles or protective silica,
590
00:33:37,099 --> 00:33:40,517
erlich and grass were able
to create the world's first
591
00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:42,644
synthetic dna.
592
00:33:42,730 --> 00:33:46,857
While biological dna is
relatively fragile,
593
00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:51,445
this synthetic dna can last
potentially for eons.
594
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,697
In the case of the bunny,
595
00:33:53,741 --> 00:33:56,533
the scientists encoded
the digital files
596
00:33:56,577 --> 00:33:58,785
used to create
the 3d-printed object
597
00:33:58,871 --> 00:34:01,121
into the plastic.
598
00:34:01,206 --> 00:34:03,415
With even just a tiny snippet,
599
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,667
they can decode
the information inside,
600
00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:08,045
and print a new copy
of the bunny,
601
00:34:08,088 --> 00:34:12,090
which will carry the same
synthetic dna.
602
00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:15,802
What makes this breakthrough
particularly significant
603
00:34:15,888 --> 00:34:18,346
is the fact that
it has the ability
604
00:34:18,432 --> 00:34:21,516
to store massive amounts
of data.
605
00:34:21,602 --> 00:34:24,561
Digital computers that you have
in your cell phone
606
00:34:24,605 --> 00:34:26,897
and everywhere
in our world today...
607
00:34:28,609 --> 00:34:30,901
...Deals with digital
information.
608
00:34:30,986 --> 00:34:33,236
Zeros and ones,
zeros and ones.
609
00:34:33,322 --> 00:34:35,447
And that's how it makes
calculations.
610
00:34:35,532 --> 00:34:38,283
Now, mother nature is
more sophisticated.
611
00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:41,495
On a dna molecule,
mother nature computes
612
00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:42,954
in base four.
613
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,918
A, t, c, g, rather than
zero, one, zero, one, zero, one.
614
00:34:48,003 --> 00:34:51,379
And we can actually compute
by hijacking
615
00:34:51,465 --> 00:34:55,217
this base four mechanism
that mother nature has created,
616
00:34:55,302 --> 00:35:01,681
and putting our programming on
a, t, c, g, a, t, c, g.
617
00:35:03,310 --> 00:35:06,228
Narrator:
Experts say that once
this technique is scaled up,
618
00:35:06,313 --> 00:35:09,689
massive amounts of data can be
stored in any object,
619
00:35:09,775 --> 00:35:13,819
retrieved and replicated,
presumably forever.
620
00:35:13,904 --> 00:35:16,780
Teitel: These are great
alternatives of storing data
621
00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:19,407
because they don't need any
energy for storage.
622
00:35:19,493 --> 00:35:21,618
They can just sit on a shelf
and not degrade.
623
00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:25,247
Spivack:
Once you actually encode data
into dna,
624
00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:28,542
it's very cheap to replicate.
625
00:35:28,627 --> 00:35:33,964
So you can put petabytes of data
into a droplet of dna,
626
00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:37,134
and then make a billion copies
of it very inexpensively.
627
00:35:37,219 --> 00:35:39,427
And if you have
a redundancy strategy,
628
00:35:39,513 --> 00:35:42,222
lots of copies is a good thing.
629
00:35:42,307 --> 00:35:44,057
Dna is also very compact.
630
00:35:44,143 --> 00:35:47,227
The amount of space it takes
to store the wikipedia
631
00:35:47,312 --> 00:35:48,979
is just a few drops of liquid,
632
00:35:49,022 --> 00:35:50,814
and those could
actually just be embedded
633
00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:53,859
into fabric or paper
and take up almost no space.
634
00:35:53,944 --> 00:35:56,778
Narrator:
Although dna data storage
635
00:35:56,822 --> 00:35:58,822
is still in its infancy,
636
00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,824
ancient astronaut theorists
believe it presents
637
00:36:00,909 --> 00:36:03,034
an intriguing possibility.
638
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,454
Is it possible
that many out-of-place artifacts
639
00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:09,166
discovered around the world
have much more to offer
640
00:36:09,251 --> 00:36:11,084
than what meets the eye?
641
00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:13,295
Might they contain information
within them
642
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:16,798
about whatever civilization
left them behind?
643
00:36:16,842 --> 00:36:19,509
There are lots
of natural materials
644
00:36:19,553 --> 00:36:22,470
that conduct and can contain
information today:
645
00:36:22,556 --> 00:36:23,930
Crystals,
646
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:27,142
various types of stones,
even living organisms.
647
00:36:27,227 --> 00:36:29,144
So, is it possible
648
00:36:29,229 --> 00:36:31,021
that extraterrestrials
have embedded
649
00:36:31,106 --> 00:36:34,316
ancient, sacred knowledge
in some type of material
650
00:36:34,359 --> 00:36:36,985
that, if we were able
to extract this information,
651
00:36:37,070 --> 00:36:39,196
there could be a wealth
of information ready,
652
00:36:39,281 --> 00:36:41,656
waiting at our fingertips?
653
00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:45,660
Narrator:
Ancient astronaut theorists
654
00:36:45,746 --> 00:36:49,164
suggest that by examining
out-of-place artifacts,
655
00:36:49,249 --> 00:36:50,957
we might discover clues
656
00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:53,877
as to what information
is contained within them
657
00:36:53,962 --> 00:36:56,004
and how to access it.
658
00:36:56,089 --> 00:36:58,423
As support for this notion,
659
00:36:58,508 --> 00:37:00,550
they point to the artifacts
that humanity
660
00:37:00,636 --> 00:37:02,510
recently sent to the moon.
661
00:37:02,596 --> 00:37:07,182
When the arch mission foundation
created the lunar library,
662
00:37:07,267 --> 00:37:09,184
they included analog layers
663
00:37:09,269 --> 00:37:11,478
that could be read
without a computer.
664
00:37:11,563 --> 00:37:14,397
Spivack:
The idea of the lunar library
was to make it something
665
00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:18,193
which recipients who find it
in millions to billions of years
666
00:37:18,237 --> 00:37:19,861
could see
that it has data on it.
667
00:37:19,947 --> 00:37:23,406
And the analog layers teach
everything you need to know
668
00:37:23,492 --> 00:37:26,243
to build a computer
and get the digital information
669
00:37:26,328 --> 00:37:27,702
off the deeper layers.
670
00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,413
By trying to store information
671
00:37:30,457 --> 00:37:32,749
for thousands
or millions of years,
672
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:35,752
you end up going
to the same solutions
673
00:37:35,796 --> 00:37:38,296
that the hypothetical
ancient aliens
674
00:37:38,382 --> 00:37:41,549
may have also figured out
how to use.
675
00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:43,343
Childress:
So, we have to ask ourself
676
00:37:43,428 --> 00:37:46,263
if these artifacts
didn't, perhaps,
677
00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:48,890
have a technological purpose
678
00:37:48,976 --> 00:37:51,601
that we still do not understand
679
00:37:51,687 --> 00:37:55,438
and information
could be extracted from them.
680
00:37:56,984 --> 00:37:58,275
Narrator:
Is it possible
681
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,986
that extraterrestrials
left artifacts on earth
682
00:38:01,071 --> 00:38:03,280
that are embedded
with information,
683
00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:05,949
much like scientists today
684
00:38:06,034 --> 00:38:10,161
are encoding synthetic dna
into inanimate objects?
685
00:38:10,247 --> 00:38:14,082
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
686
00:38:14,126 --> 00:38:16,793
the technology
of dna data storage
687
00:38:16,878 --> 00:38:21,214
may lead to an even more
profound revelation
688
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:22,590
and the discovery
689
00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:26,136
of the most incredible
alien artifacts of all.
690
00:38:31,852 --> 00:38:34,060
Narrator:
A mysterious aluminum wedge
691
00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:37,147
dated to 40,000 years ago.
692
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:40,483
A bizarre mask said to depict
693
00:38:40,527 --> 00:38:42,986
a king who ruled for centuries.
694
00:38:43,071 --> 00:38:46,990
A highly sophisticated
computing device
695
00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:50,368
found aboard
an ancient greek shipwreck.
696
00:38:50,454 --> 00:38:54,831
Archaeologists have unearthed
so-called "impossible artifacts"
697
00:38:54,916 --> 00:38:56,958
all over the world.
698
00:38:57,044 --> 00:39:00,420
But ancient astronaut
theorists ask
699
00:39:00,505 --> 00:39:02,797
what if the most incredible
alien artifact
700
00:39:02,883 --> 00:39:05,508
is right before our eyes?
701
00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:08,970
Tsoukalos:
We've always suggested
702
00:39:09,056 --> 00:39:13,350
that the ultimate proof
for the ancient astronaut theory
703
00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:15,393
will not happen
704
00:39:15,479 --> 00:39:19,647
because we'll discover
a buried spaceship somewhere
705
00:39:19,733 --> 00:39:22,484
or a ray gun in a tomb...
706
00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:27,489
...But rather
that the ultimate proof
707
00:39:27,574 --> 00:39:30,075
of this ultimate quest
will be found
708
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,244
inside of our own dna.
709
00:39:33,330 --> 00:39:34,954
Kaku:
And believe it or not,
710
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,498
I have colleagues of mine
711
00:39:36,583 --> 00:39:40,377
looking for secret messages
in our dna.
712
00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:45,215
And some of my friends take this
to the nth degree and say,
713
00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,928
"maybe aliens from outer space
have left us a message."
714
00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,138
maybe there's a message there
715
00:39:52,224 --> 00:39:56,393
hidden by an advanced
civilization and that says,
716
00:39:56,478 --> 00:39:57,894
"here we are, folks.
717
00:39:57,979 --> 00:39:59,562
"we created you.
718
00:39:59,606 --> 00:40:01,523
"we are your great-great-
great-great-great grandparents,
719
00:40:01,608 --> 00:40:03,900
"and to prove it,
we left a code for you
720
00:40:03,944 --> 00:40:05,902
in your dna."
(chuckles)
721
00:40:05,946 --> 00:40:07,946
well, we can't rule it out.
722
00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:10,907
Spivack:
What if we're all
walking libraries
723
00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:12,450
and we don't even know it?
724
00:40:12,536 --> 00:40:15,120
What if each of us,
somewhere in our genome,
725
00:40:15,205 --> 00:40:17,622
contains a huge library
from an ancient civilization
726
00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:19,749
that we're not aware of today?
727
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:23,169
If there's a way
to encode knowledge in dna,
728
00:40:23,255 --> 00:40:24,796
maybe we have it
729
00:40:24,881 --> 00:40:26,840
in our own bodies today
and don't even know it.
730
00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:30,635
Narrator:
Is it possible that
the ultimate alien artifacts
731
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,262
are humans?
732
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:34,931
And if extraterrestrials
are using
733
00:40:34,975 --> 00:40:36,266
dna to store data,
734
00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:38,435
could there be
a wealth of information
735
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,478
embedded
in out-of-place artifacts
736
00:40:40,564 --> 00:40:42,564
that exist all over the world,
737
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just waiting to be discovered?
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Henry:
We're in the midst
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00:40:46,278 --> 00:40:48,528
of a biotechnological
revolution.
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00:40:48,613 --> 00:40:50,905
Scientists now have
in their hands
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00:40:50,949 --> 00:40:54,451
the very same
or similar genetic tools
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00:40:54,494 --> 00:40:57,412
that ancient myths and legends
tell us the gods possessed
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when they fashioned
the human body.
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00:41:00,083 --> 00:41:02,083
We can only speculate
on what the impact
745
00:41:02,169 --> 00:41:03,793
of this is going to be,
746
00:41:03,837 --> 00:41:07,213
but I think deep in our core
that something would awaken
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00:41:07,299 --> 00:41:08,631
in our dna itself.
748
00:41:08,717 --> 00:41:11,468
I think we're preprogrammed
to find our origins.
749
00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:14,179
That's what ancient astronaut
theory is all about.
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00:41:14,264 --> 00:41:16,514
We're trying to find
where do we come from.
751
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,267
And this is gonna have an effect
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00:41:19,352 --> 00:41:22,103
that I think none of us
can even calculate.
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00:41:24,149 --> 00:41:27,984
Narrator:
Is it possible
that an incredible history
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00:41:28,028 --> 00:41:29,986
of alien intervention
on planet earth
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00:41:30,071 --> 00:41:31,738
has been right in front of us
756
00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:34,199
for thousands of years,
757
00:41:34,284 --> 00:41:37,660
perhaps even embedded
within our own dna?
758
00:41:38,788 --> 00:41:40,371
Were artifacts
759
00:41:40,457 --> 00:41:43,541
intentionally left
for future humans to discover
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00:41:43,627 --> 00:41:45,835
and ultimately decipher
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00:41:45,921 --> 00:41:48,963
once we developed
the technology to do so?
762
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:53,218
Perhaps humanity
has finally reached an age
763
00:41:53,303 --> 00:41:55,178
where we can begin to recognize
764
00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:59,015
the ancient time capsules
that exist all around us
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00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:03,686
and possibly even within us.
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